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DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope: close() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

Note: This feature is only available in Dedicated Web Workers.

The close() method of the DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope interface discards any tasks queued in the DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope's event loop, effectively closing this particular scope.

Syntax

close()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

If you want to close your worker instance from inside the worker itself, you can call the following:

close();

close() and self.close() are effectively equivalent — both represent close() being called from inside the worker's inner scope.

Note: There is also a way to stop the worker from the main thread: the Worker.terminate method.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
close 4 12 3.5 10.6 4 18 4 11 5 1.0 4.4 5

See also

DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope/close